There have been multiple topics on this, but I haven’t seen many since 2023. So just bringing this back up as a 2025 Coda user who is confused.
I’m confused about the way notifications work and where that notification sends you. Am I correct and is there any way to streamline this and have more control over where a notification takes you?
Here is how I think notifications work:
**Assign someone on a table:**Notification redirects them to whatever view I assigned them on, not the source view.
Notify someone with a button on a table row: Notification redirects them to the row on the source table, not the view the button was clicked on.
Notify someone with an automation based on a row change: Notification will redirect them to the row change on the source table, not the view that the row was changed on.
Notify someone with a time based automation: Doesn’t redirect anywhere it seems.
**Notify them with a button on a canvas:**Notification will redirect them to that button
The notification help page says this:
Clicking on a notification will take you to the location where that notification was triggered. So for instance, if the notification was caused by a comment on a row, you’ll be taken to that specific row in the doc. If the notification stems from another doc, a new tab will open and lead you to that location. If the notification stems from the current doc, you will simply jump to that location while remaining in the same tab.
But, for 2 & 3, it doesn’t take you to where the notification was triggered, it takes you to the source view of that table.
There are many use cases where I have lots of views and need them to go to the view that the notification was triggered on. Any insight on this from the Coda team. Am I understanding it wrong? Or, are there any ways I could streamline this?